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The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus…
The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 5
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3.17 The Son of God came not into the world to Condemn ⟨p. 97⟩it, b•t that the world through him might be Saved. God did not send His Son to Condemn the world, there was no need of that; for all the world was Condemned to death before the Son of God came into it. But therefore He came to save them from that Death, which they were Condemned unto. Eternal Death, Everlasting Burnings is the most terrible thing that possibly can be thought of, and this Jesus Christ saves from▪ Rom. 5, 9 We are saved from wrath by him. And all this has Christ done, by saving His People from their sins. Mat. 1.21 His Name shall be called Jesus, for he shall Save his People from their Sins. He saves them from all that misery which is the woeful fruit of sin. By saving them from their sin, He has saved them out of the hand of Divine Justice. As the Princes of Israel said to the Reubenites. Josh 22.31▪ You have delivered the Children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. So Jesus Christ has delivered the Israel of God out of the hand of Divine Justice, by satisfying Justice on their behalf; and therefore has Delivered them from Death, and Hell, and the Powers of Darkness; from all that Misery that sin has brought upon them.
3.17 The Son of God came not into the world to Condemn ⟨p. 97⟩it, b•t that the world through him might be Saved. God did not send His Son to Condemn the world, there was no need of that; for all the world was Condemned to death before the Son of God came into it. But therefore He came to save them from that Death, which they were Condemn'd unto. Eternal D•ath, Everlasting Burnings is the most terrible thing that possibly can be thought of, and this Jesus Christ saves from▪